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- santaliqueur, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24"That would be cool considering I have over 12390 songs."
So...you have 12,391 songs?
Put away your tiny e-penis. - simplenation, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19and i highly doubt you paid 99 cents for each one
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Stop lugging your iPod around... As opposed to lugging you PC around?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15"our best bet: Orb. It's easy to set up, chock full of great features and, best of all, free. Alas, the desktop software requires Windows "
***** article. Use SlimServer. It's free, can run on Windows, Mac, or Linux; has all the features of Orb and is better organized. Plus it's open-sourced.
http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html
Now then, anyone know of a flash-based MP3 player (preferrably Flash 7) I could embed in a web page that can open a network stream? I'd like to stream music to my Wii, and don't use any Microsoft products. - sishgupta, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15Oh god ive been so tired of lugging this incredibly heavy and cumbersome device we call an iPod around.
At 4.1''x2.4''x0.43'' with a weight of 4.8 ounces I was getting a real workout.
iPod Pico where are you!? - dentarthurdent1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7rhythmbox (and other players with daap sharing) on linux streams music over hamachi just like iTunes does...
- djrbx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7SlimServer is nice and all but still doesn't compare to ORB. ORB also lets use my computer just like slingbox, allowing me to view my cable from my phone or laptop when away from the house. Now I admit I have never used SlimServer but as far as I read on there webpage, SlimServer only streams audio files. ORB allows me to stream audio files plus the added bonus of sharing my pictures, videos, and documents. So unless SlimServer can do all that, I think I'll stick to ORB.
And by the way, just cause ORB is only for windows, don't use it as a point against it. As long as it works (and it does) is all that matters no matter what OS you might be running. - Wargalas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8amateur. :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Oh forgot to mention, Slim Server supports MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, basically any audio file you can throw at it. And can stream to any music player capable of opening a network stream (VLC, WMP, iTunes, etc...)
- davidrools, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I use orb and it's excellent, especially when you want to browse files on your host PC, stream video, and control your TV Tuner cards and watch live or recorded TV from a remote location. Slim devices does look like a good alternative for music only, which I'll admit is what this article was supposed to be about.
- Electrox3d, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Ummm... my Wii plays music from my network just fine with ORB... lol... guess its better than you thought.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5A+++++++++ BUYER WOULD BUY AGAIN DEFINITELY RECOMMEND A++
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7"Ummm... my Wii plays music from my network just fine with ORB... lol... guess its better than you thought."
Orb is WINDOWS ONLY. And doesn't play FLAC or ogg. So no, it's not. - bergur1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If you use shoutcast you can stream music from your PC to your PSP using PSPradio
- khoa1708, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3watch how if this service gets popular people will start getting sued by record companies for illegal mp3s
- amunimanghi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I love lugging my iPod all te time.
- SkyFire360, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've been looking for something for a while, and this seems like the best thread to ask it in.
Here's my situation:
- I have a very large mp3 collection on my linux server
- My iPod died :(
- I'd like to be able to stream those files while I'm not at home
- Key: I'd like to be able to control the server to skip forward/backward, play a specific song, or use a selected playlist
To sum it up, I'm looking for something that acts like the Winamp Media Library window, except remotely. Any suggestions? - ayf6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3www.shoutcast.com can do this as well with winamp.com
Just go install winamp and use it as an encoder and use shoutcast.com relay your stream. - DomZy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Vibestreamer is an awesome program
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Ask and ye shall receive -
http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"or use a hosting service that stores your library online"
Doubtful for some of us. - riah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@skyshock21
A good flash player I use: http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net/
The playlist file is xml, so I have php auto-generate it from files in a music directory. Works well for a small library. - mortigon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"lugging your iPod all the time"
Are we that friggin lazy? - bardo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'm a huge fan of SuperSync.. Lets me host my own music server.. plus allows MERGING of any two music libraries. So I can upload new music from anywhere.. and of course download and play from anywhere. Plus iTunes can access it via the LAN (built-in daap server) . No http server, no php.. just a single http port needs to be forwarded in your router. just about as easy as iTunes--but works over the entire network.
Oh yeah -- runs on Mac and PC.
http://www.supersync.com/ - brotherjohn1234, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3it don't run under linux -- that's a huge disadvantage
- Kanundra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2www.vibestreamer.com is the best
- chewitt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@skyshock21
did you invent SlimServer? you seem very passionate about using it / not using anything else - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Lifehacker is tremendously popular outside of digg: http://www.technorati.com/pop/blogs/ . If you haven't heard of it, then you need to re-evaluate who the moron is.
- fox40, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@sishgupta
Its now all about the iPod flea http://youtube.com/watch?v=qRt3Yaups1c - Malachai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Jinzora (http://www.jinzora.com) is skinnable, light, and, most importantly, cross-platform, and does videos, too.
- vawksel, on 02/01/2008, -0/+1Ugh, I can't believe no one is even mentioning JukeFly, I guess they are too new for anyone to know about.
JukeFly's brain-dead simple to setup, gives you an Adobe Flex interface, meaning it feels like a desktop application, full drag-n-drop, smooth controls, playlists, file seeking, real time transcoding of your ogg/mp3/flac audio... Cover art... visulization.
You just download the tiny server, select a music folder, and you're DONE.
http://jukefly.com - EdLesMann, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ skyfire360
I know I am like 2 days late...backreading my rss feeds...anyway...Maybe someone will find this useful.
I use jinzora and I think it works great. If you already have a LAMP system setup, then it is a very easy install.
I suggest you check it out.
Good luck! - Netrilix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've been using Hamachi for a while now, but does anyone have any good reasons NOT to use it? Anyone heard anything bad about it? (I still don't trust it enough to transfer secure stuff at all).
- potterboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://hamachi.cc/
- KyjL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What is "Hamachi", Alex?
- sapped, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Will any of these solutions allow you to play ITunes *bought* music on an Ubuntu machine? I.e. not music ripped from a CD and imported into ITunes.
- smb3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ampache is pretty sweet, I go back and forth between it and gnump3d. Ampaches page load times are a little slow, given the relatively small upload I have with time warner, but overall it's a good app. The one feature ampache is missing is a directory browsing feature. It might be hard to implement with mySQL, but that's the only reason I use gnump3d.
- Netrilix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Maybe it hits the front page because they write articles that hit the average Digg user's sweet spot?
- BassJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I run an Ubuntu box at home that runs Firefly and Hamachi to stream my music to my PC's.
On the local lan any PC running iTunes automatically see's the DAAP stream from Firefly and luckily I have enough upload speed on my broadband to stream music to my laptop when I'm away from home over Hamachi!
Took a little tweaking to get Firefly working initially, but thats all part of the fun with open source software on linux i guess and it makes it all that much more satisfying when it finally starts working :-) - watersp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@skyfire360
I've been using SlimServer (www.slimdevices.com) to stream my music collection wherever I go (usually to work) for over a year now, and I've been mostly happy with it.
Advantages:
- Written in Perl, so it's portable to most platforms and it's open source
- Streams MP3 streams, so you should be able to connect with any player that will play an MP3 network stream
- Supports any file format where you have an available decoder (the downside to this is that if you're playing a non-MP3 file, it transcodes it to MP3 - queue audio quality arguments now!)
- Web and network accessible CLI interfaces to control players
Disadvantages
- A little cumbersome to setup the first time
- On some platforms, you'll need to install some extra stuff (I had to get Lame and FFMPEG to support iTunes AAC files).
About 6 months ago I finally purchased a Squeezebox for home to replace my CD jukebox, and I love it, too!
The only issue that I've had with the current release (6.5.1) is that every now and then something fubars and I have to restart SlimServer to get it to play. 7.0 looks like it should be out sometime soon, so I'm waiting to see if that helps. - buddydvd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Fluidplay (http://fluidplay.com) let's me do this. You can share your music with other people without revealing your IP address.
- radio1mike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1These suggestions are great and all.
But the original LifeHacker situation was if you did not want to leave a PC on all the time or if you did not have a file-server.
All in all a very informative thread though. - BlackAdderIII, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"""And by the way, just cause ORB is only for windows, don't use it as a point against it. As long as it works (and it does) is all that matters no matter what OS you might be running."""
If it isn't available for your OS at all, then "as long as it works" isn't the most persuasive argument.... =) - davidrappo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm quite shocked that neither this article nor any comments mentioned Ampache! (http://ampache.bountysource.com/) I've been using it for a few years now and it's nothing short of amazing.
- BlackAdderIII, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No, it runs on OS X or Windows.
Not the same as Mac or PC that, especially for one or two of us diggers ;) - tmar89, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1MyTunesRSS
http://www.codewave.de/products/mytunesrss/
My favorite and pretty easy to use. - Chromain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1To answer that guy above who's looking for a "Winamp-esque" streaming setup, check out the newly(ish) released Winamp Remote.
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8554/WINAMP+Remote+BETA+-+a+guide+to+the+new+P2P+music+streaming+feature - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I wonder how this all stands against the linksys music bridge. I'm going to try these solutions.
http://prelude619.blogspot.com
http://members.cox.net/zugasti/googlex.html
~mario - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1yet no reasons to back up this claim?
- FishingHole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A good alternative would be media probe:
http://www.geocities.com/media_probe
It allows you to search the internet for songs by artists you like, and returns the results in a winamp playlist (m3u) or in a html file that you can open in songbird. The program searches dogpile.com, and with a short list of artists, it is easy to find hundreds or thousands of songs. They are all streamed from internet servers and don't fill up your hard drive =)
I wrote it myself, by the way. -
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